It appears that the troubled Finnish handset maker has seen some light at the end of the tunnel as Lumia 920 sales are doing better than expected. Truth be told, the sales may also indicate that initial volumes of Nokia's Lumia were too small to meet demand, but the device still did enough to surprise a financial analyst or two.

In a note to clients, Danske Bank's analyst Ilkka Rauvola has said that “Nokia’s Windows Phone model 920 is doing better than expected, and the outlook may continue to improve”. Nokia allegedly sold out the Lumia 920 in Germany, which is either grand news or just indication of the company's inability to predict and cope with demand.

Apparently, Ilkka also raised the earlier estimate of 23 million to 36 million Windows Phone 8 devices to be sold in 2013. While this is good news for Redmond, Nokia has yet to find out its true fortunes, since the company's foray into WP8 will pretty much make or break the company.

Google+ has lost 60 per cent of active users since the programme was opened to the public on September 20 and it looks like those who visit the site only do so once and never come back. Word inside the Googleplex is that the outfit can't work out why it is not doing well in the social media arena.

Web analytic firm Chitika claims it is because Google+ is too similar to Facebook and does not stand out enough. This is despite additions to the social media tool, including new +1 buttons next to all Google search results to help increase the connection between Google's search function and Google+ and the introduction of 'hangouts' section of the Google+ site.

But basically there are only a certain number people that like social networking site and right now, despite anger with Facebook, they are all headed there.

A California phisher was jailed for 12 years by a Californian court for his role in an international scam that cheated more than 38,000 people.

Tien Truong Nguyen, 34, worked with Romanian scammers to help drive people to the sites through email phishing.The court was told that Nguyen sold the data containing the identities stolen from the fake sites to Ryan Price and Stefani Ruland. These two men then setup lines of credit at GE Capital kiosks at Walmart in Northern California.

Victims ended up paying between $1,000 and $2,000. These lines of credit were used to purchase goods at the store and resell the purchases. Nguyen, Price and Ruland got $200,000 in goods from Walmart.

Nguyen was arrested by police in 2007. In his house they found web templates to build fake versions of sites like eBay, Paypal and banks such as Washington’s Heritage Bank.

He had bank and credit card numbers from 38,500 victims, a Remington 870 Magnum Express shotgun with a supply of ammo. Normally it is the right of everyone American citizens to carry a gun, but Nguyen wasn’t allowed to have a firearm due to previous convictions from three felonies that included writing fraudulent checks.

He was charged with conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, possession of a firearm and access-device fraud. During sentencing, lawyers for Nguyen attempted to argue that he had cleaned up his life and stopped using meth which would have helped.